Listing Members of a Collection: PROPFIND
PROPFIND lists the members of a collection, along with selected properties, when used with Depth 1 or Depth infinity
- Depth 1: the collection and its members
- Depth infinity: the collection and its members, and its children and their members, recursively
Key insight: a directory listing function (ls, dir, etc.) is just a specialized metadata retrieval function
Benefit: a tailorable collection listing operation